Pavement

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pavement \Pave"ment\, n. [F., fr. LL. pavamentum, L. pavimentum.
     See {Pave}.]
     That with which anything is paved; a floor or covering of
     solid material, laid so as to make a hard and convenient
     surface for travel; a paved road or sidewalk; a decorative
     interior floor of tiles or colored bricks.


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           The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold.
                                                    --Milton.
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     {Pavement teeth} (Zool.), flattened teeth which in certain
        fishes, as the skates and cestracionts, are arranged side
        by side, like tiles in a pavement.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pavement \Pave"ment\, v. t.
     To furnish with a pavement; to pave. [Obs.] "How richly
     pavemented!" --Bp. Hall.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pavement
       n 1: the paved surface of a thoroughfare [syn: {paving}]
       2: material used to pave an area [syn: {paving}]
       3: walk consisting of a paved area for pedestrians; usually
          beside a street or roadway [syn: {sidewalk}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  105 Moby Thesaurus words for "pavement":
     Tarmac, Tarvia, adobe, ashlar, asphalt, base, basement, basis,
     bearing wall, bed, bedding, bedrock, bitumen, bituminous macadam,
     blacktop, brick, bricks and mortar, carpet, carpeting, cement,
     clinker, cobble, cobblestone, concrete, cover, covering materials,
     curb, curbing, curbstone, deck, doormat, drop cloth, duckboards,
     earth, edgestone, ferroconcrete, firebrick, flag, flagging,
     flagstone, floor, floor covering, floorboards, flooring, fond,
     footing, foundation, fundament, fundamental, gravel, ground,
     ground cloth, ground-sheet, grounds, groundwork, hardpan, kerb,
     kerbstone, lath and plaster, macadam, masonry, mat, mortar,
     parquet, pave, pavestone, paving, paving material, paving stone,
     plasters, prestressed concrete, principle, radical, riprap,
     road metal, rock bottom, roofage, roofing, rudiment, rug, seat,
     siding, sill, solid ground, solid rock, stereobate, stone,
     stylobate, substratum, substruction, substructure, surfacing,
     tarmacadam, terra firma, tile, tiling, underbuilding,
     undercarriage, undergirding, underpinning, understruction,
     understructure, walling, washboard, welcome mat
  
  

From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:

  Pavement
     It was the custom of the Roman governors to erect their
     tribunals in open places, as the market-place, the circus, or
     even the highway. Pilate caused his seat of judgment to be set
     down in a place called "the Pavement" (John 19:13) i.e., a place
     paved with a mosaic of coloured stones. It was probably a place
     thus prepared in front of the "judgment hall." (See {GABBATHA}.)